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JAMCO AMERICA, INC. Buyer 1-Export-Bilingual Japanese in EVERETT, Washington
JAMCO AMERICA, INC.
Job Title: Buyer-1 Export
*FLSA Status: *Non-Exempt
*Salary Range: *$25.10-$27.90
Summary
Proactively communicate with customers regarding orders, including price, delivery options, specifications, and quality. Work under supervision to prepare RFQ, place orders with supplier, and follow-up to insure on-time delivery to customer.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities* include the following with other duties as assigned:*
- Coordinate price, delivery options, specifications, quality and other customer requirements. Provide timely response to customer's inquiries.
- Maintain procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality and on time delivery performance.
- Solve problems on defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
- Determine the best supplier to meet customer's needs, and provide quotation.
- Receive PO from customer and generates purchase orders.
- Review / Monitor internal inventory stock if necessary.
- Consult catalogue/website and confer with vendors to obtain product or services information such as price, availability, and delivery schedules.
- Prepare bid requests and review bid proposals, comparing prices, specifications, and delivery date to select best value for goods required.
- Prepare purchase order and send it to supplier.
- Expedite delivery of goods to customers.
- Obtain technical data or other information from supplier per customer's request.
- Manage suppliers for on time delivery.
- Provide delivery information to customers.
- Coordinate shipping arrangement and shipping instructions with forwarder, customer and Export team.
- Provide commercial invoices to customers.
- Work with accounting team, suppliers, and customers for any price discrepancy issues.
Coordinate with freight forwarder, supplier, inspectors, and customer for any rejected items.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
*Qualifications *
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbal and written.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
Professional with proven organizational and time management skills.
All external hiring is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen and a criminal background check.
Requirements
Education and/or Experience:
Ability to meet qualifications, common business sense, sense of teamwork.
Position requires the completion of high school, supplemented by basic job-related courses or training in a non-technical or vocational field and at least one year of international sales and/or purchasing and/or customer service experience. *Bilingual Japanese Required
Language Skills
Ability to read and interpret documents such a safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effec